The Bergen Record is reporting that it is Bon Jovi and not the closer Bruce Springsteen who will open the new New York Jets and Giants stadium next spring.

It is quite fitting that Jon Bon Jovi, Springsteen and the Jersey Boys all be part of the Meadowlands’ history.

On October 9, Bruce Springsteen was at Giants Stadium for the final concert performance at the stadium, which will be demolished following this year’s NFL season.

The Boss last night finished a four night series at the Spectrum in South Philadelphia, which is also set to be demolished.

The new $1.6 billion facility in North Jersey is currently under construction and it is expected that it will be completed in the spring ahead of schedule.

The Bergen Record said the sources had informed the newspaper that the Bon Jovi concert’s official announcement would be tomorrow.

The Bon Jovi band has been getting lots of publicity recently.

On Monday Jon Bon Jovi lead singer, dedicated a new playground in Camden.

On Saturday When We Were Beautiful, the first ever documentary of the band, will make its debut on Showtime at 9 p.m.

On November 10, Bon Jovi will release The Circle, their latest album.

Jon Bon Jovi owned the AFL team the Philadelphia Soul. In 2008 the team won the 2008 Arena Football League championship before it suspended operations last year.

It is doubtful there will be a 2010 season. Last month a new arena league with 16 teams was announced but there was no entry from Philadelphia.

The new stadium is currently named Meadowlands Stadium. A naming right deal could possibly be struck to change that.

The X Factor continues to bring top acts to their line up to perform on the show. Next month JLS and Bon Jovi will hit the stage in order to promote their latest singles.

On Sunday November 1 both groups will be playing live as both the public as well as judges will decide which of the X Factor acts are going to make it through the sing-off elimination.

Bon Jovi, multi Grammy award winners, will be performing their hit song “We Weren’t Born to Follow,” before the November 2 launch of The Circle, the band’s new album.

Last month Jon Bon Jovi revealed he is a Susan Boyle fan and would like to sing a duet together with her.

Bon Jovi hasn’t kept his affection for Boyle a secret after she awed the entire world through her performances on the show Britain’s Got Talent. However, it doesn’t seem very likely that the two will connect on the show the X Factor.

Worldwide the band Bon Jovi has sold over 120 million albums as well as performed in over 2,600 concerts in more than 50 countries in front of over 34 million fans.

JLS, meanwhile, will be performing their song, “Everybody in Love,” before the November 2 release of their much anticipated debut album entitled JLS.

Aston Merrygold, JLS band member, confessed that he does have a fancy for Cheryl Cole, X Factor judge. Lat year, the boy band were the runners-up on The X Factor, with Louis Walsh as their mentor.

Bon Jovi is going to be the first artist to appear over NBC Universal’s many brands in their unique partnership they are calling an Artist in Residence. According to the exclusive agreement, the performances, appearances, and music of Bon Jovi will be widely heard and seen across many of NBC Universal’s platforms and brands. The announcement came from Jeff Gaspin, who is the chairman for Universal Television Entertainment at NBC.

The project for Artists in Residence is coinciding with the launch on November 10th of The Circle, the new studio album from Bon Jovi.

The project will offer NBCU a unique opportunity for working with the band as well as Jon Bon Jovi, through guest starring roles, musical guest appearances, and interviews to help bring compelling and exclusive content across the many brands of NBC Universal, including cable information and news platforms, broadcast network, cable network and their other digital assets. It will also provide Bon Jovi with a unique opportunity for promoting their album The Circle to a more diverse and broader audience.

Gaspin said, assembling such a unique mix of different appearances across the NBC Universal brands would provide Bon Jovi with the opportunity for reaching a wider audience in many different compelling ways and simultaneously provide exclusive and interesting content to NBCU’s properties.

As part of their participation in the program Artists in Residence, the band has confirmed a number of appearances on different NBCU platforms, including the “Bon Jovi Month” special on NBC’s Today show during the month of November where they will be appearing live on the show during each of the four Wednesdays of November, capping the month off with a concert performance Wednesday November 25th on the plaza.

Bon Jovi will also appear on several of NBC’s Entertainment programs and will be a featured guest on the Bravo show “Inside the Actors’ Studio.” On “USA Character Showcase” the philanthropic and artistic work of Jon Bon Jovi will be highlight in an online and on the air campaign. In addition he will appear as a featured panelist on the USA Network “Characters United National Town Hall,” sponsored by Tom Brokaw. The discussion on how to overcome social injustices will take place Wednesday December 2 in Washington DC. There will also be a feature of Jon with Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News, and “The More You Know,” their public service campaign, with spots airing on the broadcast networks and NBCU cable. The music of the band will be integrated quite heavily through the NCB cable and network programming.

“We Weren’t Born To Follow” the lead single from Bon Jovi’s new album The Circle was co-produced and written by Richie Sambora and Jon Bon Jovi and the production was done by John Shanks. Shanks worked as well on Bon Jovi’s last two albums, Lost Highway (2007), debuting at #1 on Soundscan’s charts, and Have A Nice Day (2005), featuring “Who Says You Can’t Go Home,” their Grammy award winning single.

Their “Lost Highway World Tour” that began in New Jersey for ten nights and closed out with a free historic concert in Central Park in New York City as well as two sold out Madison Square Garden concerts was, according to Billboard, the number one selling tour in all the world in 2008.

For over two decades Bon Jovi has been setting the standard for being one of the world’s most successful rock bands. Globally, Bon Jovi has sold over 120 million albums as well as performed in over 2,600 concerts in more than 50 different countries in front of over 34 million fans.

A world that doesn’t have at least one Bon Jovi documentary just doesn’t seem complete. That will be fixed by “When We Were Beautiful.” Showtime has acquired the documentary of Bon Jovi which will premiere on October 24. Phil Griffin, photographer and filmmaker, directed the documentary which was filmed behind the scenes on the 2008 Lost Highway World Tour for the band that ended with a big Central Park concert in New York City.

Phil Griffin said that throughout his process of working with the band Bon Jovi that he was amazed at the candor and humility of the band and Jon.

The end result isn’t a neat bundle of musical interludes and staged interviews. Instead it’s a series of sometimes difficult and open conversations that are explored against a musical backdrop which spans twenty five years.

The film is about Jon’s drive, Richie’s complexity, Dave’s brutal honest and Tico’s peace. The band members’ willingness to share their story provides us with a very human story that shows the band will stand the tests of time.

Lots of people gave up on the guys from Jersey around the time that “I’ll Be There for You,” got played for about the billionth time. Credit needs to be given to Jon Bon Jovi and Company who have stayed relevant and rolled with the punches, remaining successful and popular for all of these years.

The band’s first album was released in 1984 after all!

Bon Jovi has taken their fair share of knocks for following the arena rock clichéd template. But it’s okay sometimes. That is all we want at times.

“The Circle,” the band’s new studio album, has a release date of November 10th. In addition, Harper Collins is releasing a companion book entitled “When We Were Beautiful” on October 27th.

The promoters AEG Live are playing down speculation that the rock band Bon Jovi are returning to London’s O2 arena for a multiple date residency.

Rumors are being spread over the internet about a 20 night residency, but AEG hasn’t had much to say officially about the matter. An AEG spokesman said he didn’t have any word regarding the rumored deal.

However, there are other sources that do suggest that there might just be some truth to the story. After all Bon Jovi was the band who two years ago opened at the record setting arena. The band also does have a history of making booking residencies in the US.

A band spokesman said that Bon Jovi was currently working on The Circle, their new album, which will be released later this year. He added that they would be announcing the details for a tour of North America but said he didn’t know of any proposed London residency.

Rock star Jon Bon Jovi says that he completely understands why former members of Nirvana are protesting the use of an image of Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5, a popular video game.

Last week Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic stated that they were disappointed that an avatar of Cobain was being used in the game for playing songs from other acts.

Jon Bon Jovi said on BBC that he didn’t know if he would have wanted that either. He said that hearing another person’s voice coming from a cartoon version of me would sound a little forced.

Last weekend Guitar Hero 5 started number one on the UK game charts, beating The Beatles: Rock Band, their highly promoted rival.

The late front man for Nirvana appears in the game as an unlockable character which allows players to see Cobain’s image performing a variety of other musical tracks include “You Give Love A Bad Name” by Bon Jovi.

In a statement released jointly by Novoselic and Grohl last week they stated that hadn’t known that the image of Cobain would used that way.

They said they were very disappointed and dismayed the way that the image of Kurt was being used in Guitar Hero 5.

The duo also encouraged Activision, the game maker, to do the right ting by re-locking the character Kurt.

Activision stated the the singer’s estate had granted their permission for using Cobain’s image. They said that Courtney Love, Cobain’s widow, had provided them with a written agreement allowing the likeness of the singer to appear as a completely playable character in Guitar Hero 5.

On Twitter, Love stated that she hadn’t ever signed a contract on Guitar Hero 5 and threatened Activision with legal action. She wrote that it was a breach of contract by a bully and that it would be properly addressed and be retracted.

Jon Bon Jovi, who is currently promoting the 11th studio album of his band, The Circle, stated that he had been offered to appear in Guitar Hero as a playable character and had declined.

He said he had the paperwork and that they had wanted him to be in the game but he had passed. Bon Jovi added that no one had ever mentioned that he would be singing other artist’s songs. I am not sure I would have wanted that or reacted to it.

Richie Sambora, guitarist for Bon Jovi, revealed that to promote “The Circle,” their upcoming album, the band might go out on a world tour next year. He told Rolling Stone magazine that in 2010, probably in the spring, that they would get going and would go out for a long time and that it would be a big one.

The guitarist said he and Jon Bon Jovi had been planning to release a greatest hits collection first before they worked on a new album, but once they started just couldn’t stop making new music.

He said that they began having so much fun while they were making the record that they decided they would first do a studio album. He added that it sounded fresh and that they have reinvented themselves once again. He said that he and Jon had a great time making the album and were quite proud of it. Sambora said they were just getting to the mixing and that they had had quite a prolific songwriting period.

The band’s long awaited new album will be released in November.

Bon Jovi has told Rolling Stone that on their next album they will go back to rock and roll. Today we learned when the returning to their roots will happen when Bon Jovi announced that the release date for The Circle, their next album, will be November 10th.

The first single entitled “We Weren’t Born To Follow” made its radio debut yesterday and featured an anthemic chorus. You can hear it at the Island Def Jam website.

The Circle is a follow up to the band’s country infused and platinum selling album, Lost Highway. Richie Sambora, Bon Jovi’s guitarist, said to Rolling Stone that he thinks what happened was they made a record that was Nashville influenced and that had created a vacuum for a big rock record. He added that there was a continued evolution and that The Circle didn’t sound like any of their previous other records. Santana also said that everyone who they had played it for had really been turned on by it, and that they were very happy about how it had turned out.

The Circle finds Bon Jovi teaming up again with the producer John Shanks, whom they have worked with previously on Have A Nice Day (2005) and Lost Highway (2007). Sambora also said to Rolling Stone that Bon Jovi would tour to promote their new album at some point during Spring 2010 and promised that it would be a big one.

Jon Bon Jovi and Joan Baez would never be allowed to sing in Iran, but are showing their strong support for the protesters there.

In videos that can be found on YouTube, Bon Jovi and Baez perform songs, including some lines sang in Farsi, calling for peace.

In “Stand By Me, Bon Jovi sings with Andy Madadian, an Armenian-Iranian pop musician. Bon Jovi adds a line sung in Farsi proclaiming “one voice, you and me.”

Richie Sambora, Bon Jovi’s guitarist, supplies the licks in the video from June 24th. The video opens with the image of Bon Jovi with a sign in his hands written in Farsi that says “we are all one.”

Bon Jovi was thanked for his performance in comments posted on his website on Saturday, expressing hopes that Bon Jovi would some day be the first American singer to preform in Iran.

Joan Baez, American activist and folk singer, sang “We Shall Overcome,” singing parts of it in Farsi. The 68 year old singer, is seen sitting in her kitchen strumming on an acoustic guitar on the song that was the anthem and made famous by the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.

Baez, in a message on her website to the people of Iran, proclaims that the world sees the power of nonviolence in you and thanks them for their courage and sacrifices.

Other musicians provide soundtracks for the slideshows and videos of the protests of the alleged fraud from the June 12 election which gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a landslide victory.

One set of photographs has late pop superstar Michael Jackson’s song “Beat It,” with the key lyrics in red overlaying images of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Ahmadinejad.

Rage Against The Machine, the politically minded rock band, provides the soundtrack for a video that splices political protest photographs with video of the pre-election debate where Ahmadinejad is holding the intelligence file of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s wife, who was a rival candidate.

Bon Jovi arrived in Milwaukee in high spirits, kicking off this year’s Summerfest with a sweaty, sticky sold out opening day performance at the Amp. Bon Jovi really should be given credit for a lot more than their ability for making guys rock with their anthems or making women swoon with their ballads of endless love and nostalgia.

These qualities are definitely what helps the band to sell out arenas, but it isn’t everything. The band has accomplished something greater, something that is a lot more rare within rock-n-roll stardom under the spotlight. Jon Bon Jovi has been able to transcend space and time by somehow managing to retain relevancy for over two decades that are quite musically diverse and emerging even better from the experience.

Who else from the era of head bangers with hair spray would be able to say that?

This is probably Bon Jovi’s crowning achievement, although if you were to ask the band members they might have another milestone on their minds.

Bon Jovi arrived in Milwaukee on the heels of being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, where they joined fellow New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen. Their sweaty and sticky sold out opening night Summerfest performance at Marcus Amphitheater showed them to be in high spirits.

The Big Gig’s main stage serves as an ideal venue for the band, known for checking all political opinion and pretension at the door and delivering all hopeful songs with strong spirit and good attitude. There is a place and time for meaningful metaphors and artful arrangements, but opening night was a moment for the crowd to just indulge in some familiar, simple pleasures as they sung along to the songs, line by line.

Bon Jovi’s music sets the perfect tone for making people unite in the struggle and feel good without feeling the need to place blame or point fingers or celebrate the downtrodden. It feels like when Jon Bovi Jovi is smiling, that the world just smiles back at him. What choice do you really have when the opening song is an upbeat versions of the classic Dave Clark Five’s tune “Glad All Over?”

Even when Jon and Company follow things up with the quasi angst 1987 hit song, “You Give Love a Bad Name,” it’s hard to see them as anything but America’s sweethearts, even if the band members are all close to 50. Jon has the energy and playfulness of a 23-year old while on stage, with his shirt partially open and feathered hair bobbing up and down as he leaps around stage and then settling perfectly into place with every dramatic pose. The women, who made up the majority of the 23,000 person crowd, were squealing and hanging on every word of Jon’s all night.

Jon noted that the band was only playing four shows for the year, with this performance being number three. He said when they were offered the opportunity to play Summerfest that he said “hell yeah.”

When they band played “I Love This Town” from the 2007 album “Lost Highway,” the crowd took it to heart. They also played some of their “newer” hits, including “Who Says You Can’t Go Home,” “Have A Nice Day,” and “It’s My Life, but really seemed quite eager to bring everyone back to the early 80’s. First there was “Runaway,” followed up with “Bad Medicine,” “Raise Your Hands,” and several other tunes which peaked well before grunge came onto the scene.

Oddly enough, when Bon Jovi digs down deep it doesn’t necessarily feel like it’s a novelty act. The crowd, mixed with both those not old enough to be born before the band surfaced, along with others old enough to be the band member’s moms, were all equally accepting of their old, dated material along with their newer, squeaky clean orientation that the band has taken.

It seems as if the band could do no wrong, although it would have been better to have Jon singing the solo version of the song “I’ll Be There For You” instead of Richie Sambora. But his impeccable timing along with the breakdown was nothing short of epic.

Leaving “Livin’ on a Prayer” off until the encore did come as somewhat of a surprise. Jon did, however, have some new tricks to unveil. He announced to the crowd that the band had just finished up a new album the night before. No one knows exactly what that means, but it is almost certain that we have new Bon Jovi material to look forward to in the near future. It was a nice parting gift from the sold out opening night performance.